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The police have made serious inroads into a robbery case that was filed last year by a travel agent. The agent had last year filed a case of robbery against his driver. However,days later the drivers body was discovered in Kasara. On January 12 this year,the police arrested two persons in connection with the case.
On May 21 last year Nalex Travels in Vile Parle got a call from a man who identified himself as Deepak. He wanted to rent a Tata Innova to go to Shirdi with three other people. He asked for the car to be sent to a place near Vile Parle. Nalex Travels then sent a car along with the driver Dattatraya Gaikwad. Two days later when repeated attempts at contacting Gaikwad,who had still not returned,failed Nalex Travels filed a case of robbery against him at Vile Parle police station.
During their investigation the Vile Parle police had informed police stations along the Mumbai-Nashik route to look out for Gaikwad.
The police soon came to know that a body had been found in Kasara with a licence bearing Gaikwads name. After confirming that the body was Gaikwads,the police began to look for Deepak and found out his number from the phone records of the travel agency.
The police then came to know that there was no Deepak and that two of the men who travelled in the car were in a jail in Uttar Pradesh under the Arms Act.
Thereafter,they applied for the custody of the two menPrashant Singh (23) and Sachin Singh (22),arresting them on January 12. The two accused have criminal records in UP though they have none in Mumbai. They have now been sent to jail. The police are still on the look out for the Innova and the others involved in the case.
The four men had used a false name to get the car from the agency as they wanted to steal it, said Assistant Police Inspector R Kane of Vile Parle police station.
When they reached an abandoned stretch in Kasara they strangled Gaikwad and took off with the car. It is clear that they wanted to sell the car for money and saw this as a way to get the car without being caught, he added.
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